Why do people think aliens would have human characteristics?
I say that its easier to create an alien with features and character traits we are familiar with than to say “we have no idea what they’d look like or act like”. Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: Serial killers often have above average IQs, so being more intelligent doesn’t neccessarilly mean more friendly. I won’t be holding any hopes on aliens saving the world and fixing all our problems, but I believe that any aliens out there will be like nothing we have ever known.
My first answer would’ve been that we lack imagination OR that any other thought up idea would seem weird and nlikely (ie piles of glob-like aliens). But I don’t think they’d necessarily look exactly human, it’d depend on the environment they live in, but we see them as human in general form because well – evolution. Humans have been the top of the food chain due to having opposible thumbs and standing up (supporting the brain), therefore scientists probably assume that in the alien’s race for the survival of the fittest, they’d have to achieve similar traits, you get me? That’s my interpretation. Don’t know if it’s correct.
I would say it is more so because of the egocentric human being. We believe that certain core components make up a society. Please check out this website: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13… It describes some “unique” human traits found in animals. If these traits can be found in animals scientist definitely believe that a culture/society is built the same way with unearthly organic lifeforms.
